Linus Pauling Interview, December 8, 1985

Interviewee: Linus Pauling
Interviewer: Thomas Hager
Interview Date: December 8, 1985
Location: Interview conducted over telephone
Duration: 0:27:56
 

In this brief phone interview, journalist Thomas Hager poses some questions to Pauling on behalf of Oregon Magazine. Pauling gives his thoughts on activism in world peace, especially among scientists. He shares his views about militarism, Presidents Kennedy and Reagan, and Secretaries of Defense McNamara and Weinberger. Specific mention is made to a petition several physicists and university presidents have signed against the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as the "Star Wars program."

Focus of the conversation then shifts to Pauling’s book How to Live Longer and Feel Better and the kinds of recommendations he makes in the book regarding supplements and lifestyle factors. It concludes with some discussion vitamin C’s role in treating AIDS, the difficulties of doing clinical research on the topic, and mention of Drs. Robert F. Cathcart III and Ewan Cameron and their work on the matter.

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Title

Linus Pauling Interview, December 8, 1985

Description

In this brief phone interview, journalist Thomas Hager poses some questions to Pauling on behalf of Oregon Magazine. Pauling gives his thoughts on activism in world peace, especially among scientists. He shares his views about militarism, Presidents Kennedy and Reagan, and Secretaries of Defense McNamara and Weinberger. Specific mention is made to a petition several physicists and university presidents have signed against the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as the "Star Wars program."

Focus of the conversation then shifts to Pauling’s book How to Live Longer and Feel Better and the kinds of recommendations he makes in the book regarding supplements and lifestyle factors. It concludes with some discussion vitamin C’s role in treating AIDS, the difficulties of doing clinical research on the topic, and mention of Drs. Robert F. Cathcart III and Ewan Cameron and their work on the matter.

Creator

Linus Pauling

Source

Thomas Hager Papers (MSS Hager)

Publisher

Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries

Date

December 8, 1985

Contributor

Thomas Hager

Format

Digitized Audiocassette

Language

English

Type

Oral History

Identifier

MSS Hager - 2.005.1

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Thomas Hager

Interviewee

Linus Pauling

Location

Interview conducted over telephone

Original Format

Audiocassette tape

Duration

0:27:56

OHMS Object

Interview Format

audio